Console and classify : the French psychiatric profession in the nineteenth century / Jan Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Jan, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--France--History--19th century.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatrists--France--History--19th century.

Psychiatrists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 414 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Contents:

Introduction

1: "Profession" in context

2: Toward psychiatry

3: The transformation of charlatanism, or the moral treatment

4: The politics of patronage

5: Monomania

6: Religious roots and rivals

7: Choosing philosophical sides

8: The Law of 1838 and the asylum system

9: Hysteria, anticlerical politics, and the view beyond the asylum

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 391-397.

ISBN:

9780521322799

0521322790

9780521395557

0521395550

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00147 hdl